Word: toga
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with a deep sense of pleasure and relief," said outgoing U.N. General Assembly President Alex Quaison-Sackey, resplendent in a Ghanaian toga of orange and gold, "that I welcome all representatives present." Relief was the operative word. It had been Quaison-Sackey's fate to preside over what Britain's Lord Caradon had rightly called the "lost session" of the U.N. General Assembly. Not since December 1963 had the Assembly been able to discuss issues freely or to vote on them. But as the white and lavender saris of Indians commingled with the rainbowed robes of Nigerians...
...woman" for gambling payoffs. With interest, Powell's debt is now close to $51,000. With rare severity, New York has issued a warrant for his civil ar rest. But now that Congress has convened, Solon Powell has once more donned the constitutional toga (Art. I, Sec. 6) that immunizes Congressmen from civil arrest "during their attendance at the sessions of their respective houses, and in going to and returning from the same...
...full voice for about five minutes to a crowd whose mercurial temper is painfully, if not laughably, stilted. They roar disapproval run around in confusion, roar approval, fidget and scratch as Antony continues and like well-trained beasts roar again. When Antony whips out Caesar's blood-stained toga, which looks for all the world as it it's been smeared with strawberry ripple ice-cream, the mob gives its practiced gasp, but the audience, instead of being awestruck, chuckles...
Kuchel: Let me put my tattered senatorial toga over your shoulders for a moment. How would you make a decision when some scientists urge that we approve it and others that we disapprove it; when the Joint Chiefs of Staff approve and when other renowned military leaders disapprove...
Kuchel: You can give me my toga back...